Sophia, Goddess: naked body, naked soul, and fine art nude photography

excerpted from HER: the sacred naked mother earth, and the divine feminine soul, by Jack Haas

To be spiritually enlightened is to be empty of the desire for results. It is being totally in the Now. Being empty of results I place my head into the lap of my Goddess Sophia as Freedom. Let Her bells reign from the depths of infinity.

Becoming empty of results I attain all. Even the attainment of spiritual enlightenment is an illusion, for enlightenment is free of all possessions. Hence I never possess enlightenment and never am enlightened. This is enlightenment. I cannot, in the eyes of my Goddess, possess anything, be it land, house or sea.

To be free of the self is to attain to the empty Self of Nature. This is to allow life to flow, like a river. Nothing is possessed. Nothing is labeled. Life is no-thing. It is interesting to me that the term current means flow as well as present (as in "current events"). The deepest present we can give to ourselves is to be current. Isn't it interesting that present means gift as well as here and now? To be present is the same as being current. The flow of our life is in the here and now. To possess, label and control is like damming the river. The flow of life is retarded. It is interesting that dam and damn are the same word. Being stuck is our worst nightmare. It is hell. Let Freedom reign. Go with the flow.

            Underneath our clothing we are as naked as jaybirds. Being naked is ultimate life and freedom. This is how we come into Sophia. Naked.

Burl B. Hall

HER: the sacred naked mother earth, and the divine feminine soul

by Jack Haas

Mystical devotion to the Goddess, and fine art nude photography.

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